Experts warn: flaws in postmortem blood tests
`Miscarriages of justice are “almost certainly” taking place because of a mistaken belief [you can calculate] how many tablets somebody swallowed before they died, a group of eminent scientists and doctors says today.
[..] The Hutton inquiry heard from a forensic toxicologist that Dr Kelly could have swallowed between 29 and 30 tablets of a strong painkiller called Coproxamol which he had been prescribed for back pain.
But, say the authors of the BMJ editorial, the measurement of toxic substances in the blood after death is a very inexact science.’
